Chesham Town Football Club were an

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club from Chesham,

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. Chesham and Waterside FC was founded by Rev Reade, curate of Christ Church, Chesham in 1879. The first game was against Amersham in October 1879. In 1894 they became founder members of the Southern League. They were renamed Chesham Town in

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and continued to play in the Southern League until

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, when they finished 11th and bottom of the table. They re-entered the Southern League in

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but left four years later to become founder members of the Athenian League. They left that league at the end of the 1913–14 season to join the

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. In

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the club merged with

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to form

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, who are still in existence.

References

* * Chesham United F.C. Chesham Defunct football clubs in England Association football clubs established in 1894 Association football clubs disestablished in 1917 Southern Football League clubs Defunct football clubs in Buckinghamshire Athenian League 1894 establishments in England 1917 disestablishments in England {{England-footyclub-defunct-stub